Phrase by 'Geraldine McCaughrean'

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Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Work , End , Win , Confidence


The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  You , Better , Reading , Way


I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Short , Children , Book , Picture


I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Myself , Thinking , Someone , Passion


'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Myself , Book , Mind , Drunk


I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Time , Reading , My Own , Imagination


The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Home , Good , Hero , Tea


I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  You , Me , Dead , Library


Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Me , Look , Words , Father


I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Know , Think , Understand , Story


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